First off, a huge thanks to anyone who can help me solve this interesting problem:
I have two HDs, a 60gig (C:) that I use mainly for running WinXP and a few programs, and a 120gig (F:) that I use for games and media files (I believe the second is a Maxtor drive). On my 120gig drive, I have a folder that leads to subfolders, each containing a selection of game files, music files, movie files, utility files, etc. Just last night I tried opening one of the subfolders, and it paused for a few seconds, and then gave me the message “The disk in drive F:\ is not formatted. Would you like to format it now?”…ACK! (I clicked no, a bit shaken up at the sight of ‘the F-word’). Here is the strange part: It only does that with the last three subfolders shown alphabetically. The others open perfectly fine. I can also right click and check the properties, but it just says there are 0 files…
I believe this may be related to an earlier problem I had posted about, where a selection of my music spontaneously disappeared. My (then) music folder would have come 4th from the end alphabetically, and it was all the files after the letter B that had disappeared…perhaps they were all corrupted at the same time and I hadn’t discovered it until now?
I guess what I’m looking for is: does anyone know how to get my files back?! I tried a defrag when I was having music file troubles, but I can try it again…I’m off to run a virus scan, hoping that something will heal…
Again, a huge thanks in advance…